[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v4, 12/13] cmd: fdt: add fdt overlay application subcommand

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:

> The device tree overlays are a good way to deal with user-modifyable
> boards or boards with some kind of an expansion mechanism where we can
> easily plug new board in (like the BBB or the raspberry pi).
> 
> However, so far, the usual mechanism to deal with it was to have in Linux
> some driver detecting the expansion boards plugged in and then request
> these overlays using the firmware interface.
> 
> That works in most cases, but in some cases, you might want to have the
> overlays applied before the userspace comes in. Either because the new
> board requires some kind of an early initialization, or because your root
> filesystem is accessed through that expansion board.
> 
> The easiest solution in such a case is to simply have the component before
> Linux applying that overlay, removing all these drawbacks.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
> Acked-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou at konsulko.com>
> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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